Business first; pleasure afterwards.

If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.

Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.

All is vanity, nothing is fair.

Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter.

If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us.